"FakeBit" smartwatch bp measurement was 108/70, simultaneous with using a cuff sphyg gave 149/88, which is much more realistic for me Don't trust your FakeBit when it comes to blood pressure Be interested to know proper FitBits do better

"The day that #Bowie died" #Music A song I wrote and recorded a few days after his death davebradley.bandcamp.com/track/the-da...

New phone screen protector installed. This one came with two little stickers you put on each end so you could lower it on to the phone screen without surgical skills to avoid touching the back. More to the point... #NoBubbles

Too often, I overlook hashtags, so to compensate, here's too many #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Moon #Lunar #NightSky #Space #MoonPhotography #Selene Oh, and a song... davebradley.bandcamp.com/track/luna

I need to fix up my old telescope and cross my fingers for at least one clear night while Jupiter is so close... Meanwhile, a photo I took with my phone through the telescope

Whooper Swan at Sundown. Incidentally, the w is silent...in the word Whooper, obvs #UKBirding WWT Welney, 2026-01-02

Fluffed up and Framed Stonechat, one of several at WWT Welney darting about between hides and trying not to succumb to the icy chill on 2nd Jan #UKBirding

Spot the Snipe... ...a lot easier when they're wading in the water than when they're waddling in the weeds #UKBirding

Over the holiday, while folks were on well-deserved breaks, our new book was released! Mentoring writers is hard - we can make it easier for you. Please help spread the word - repost this, tell your colleagues, etc. scientistseessquirre... 1/2

UKSnowMap has the best weather icon on social media

#UKSnow CB24 2/10 @uksnowmap.com

Whooper Swan at WWT Welney, one of the injured birds that no longer migrate. Looking mighty peeved at the Pochards, Mallards, and Tufted Ducks frantically feeding around it #UKBirding

Garden TrailCam has mainly picked up rat (1x), cat (4x), Mrs Sciencebase (1x), Sciencebase Jr (1x), Postie (1x), Me....and....and...yes Fox (1x backend). 19h45! Pleased with that (the camera's auto-clock seems to be an hour fast though and no way to fix)

Okay, the sprouts are on, should be ready for just after the King's speech

Chris Rea RIP, latest artist famed (in part) for a Christmas tune to sadly die at this time of year. www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...

My Bluesky Wrap 2025: 451 posts, 1557 replies 9,141 likes received Most used hashtag: #teammoth My archetype: The Visual Storyteller

He's making a list He's checking it twice He's gonna find out he should've agg'ed those moths without the gen det slice #teamMoth

I may well light up tonight, just in case #teamMoth But, closing in on yearend with a total of 9000 moths of 344 species recorded, 40 of those new for garden this year, including Goat Moth, Striped Hawk-moth, Kent Black Arches etc, best year for a while

Sad to hear Chris Rea has gone...no obvious jokes, please

Spent quite a bit of time with this beautiful Kingfisher back in the halcyon days of summer. Funnily enough, the etymology of its scientific name Alcedo atthis, essentially means Halcyon beauty. Atthis being Sappho's favourite on Lesbos #UKBirding

So, cheeky pint or two with the son-in-law while the others are at a "solstice" yoga session, get back, check the lamp - LBAM and Dark Chestnut (NFY) #teamMoth

Don't think I've ever seen a Shoveler from this angle before, I didn't realise their bills were shaped quite look this when seen from below! #UKBirding

Mrs Sciencebase found a Lge YU larva among the leeks she harvested from the allotment this pm, which was nice. And, next to the trap this evening, first Winter Moth of the season #teamMoth #mothsMatter

The seemingly random trail of Christmas lights I hung in our front garden actually plotted the precise path taken by a December Moth as it carefully avoided the trap in the back garden #teamMoth

Lots of Red Kite locally and we're miles from any of the reintro/feeding sites...but we do have a dump, which they and thousands of gulls love

The Starlings are gathering locally and doing their thing, murmurating to confuse raptors. About 12000 of them in this flock, hoping to see numbers up in the hundreds of thousands again by March/April. Narrated video and extended transcript on my site #UKBirding www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...

Apparently, there's a Razorbill on our patch, it was flushed on the River Nene by a boat and headed south towards us. It's a species you normally expect to see coastally, not this far inland. Here's one I snapped on a trip to Anglesey #UKBirding

Who doesn't love a starling murmuration? There was a good flock of 10-12000 over RSPB Ouse Fen, Earith. It was after sunset, not a lot of light in the sky #UKBirding There's a Peregrine above the flock in this photo. The presence of a Peregrine or another raptor being the reason starlings do this

Worst weather for wildlife photography, windy, dull, and very wet, and while there may be hundreds of Whooper Swans #UKBIrding locally, I'm going to stay dry and decorate the Xmas tree instead Also, lit up briefly last night #teamMoth 1x LBAM #NoWogan I've got Xmas songs to arrange too for a gig

I bought Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody before it became the 1973 Christmas number one, that's how old I am! It cost 32.5p in Woolies in Whitley Bay, that was a lot of pocket money back then...

It's idiotic that banks, comms companies, and anybody else send out scam-warning emails with embedded links! The fundamental message should be: DO NOT CLICK LINKS IN EMAILS Latest one from @giffgaffnetwork.bsky.social

Oh wow, was searching for Sabbath's "Killing yourself to live" on Youtube and the site popped up a message from The Samaritans...

It's BandCamp Friday again, so if you buy my greatest "hits" album today, I get all the money, BandCamp doesn't take their usual cut davebradley.bandcamp.com/album/writte...

Our pond is properly full now...so where's my Grey Wagtail? #UKBirding (Friend on the other side of the village had one to her pond a couple of days ago!)

In panto, we're doing a Taylor Swift song (State of Grace) that you could say "interpolates" Rihanna's We Found Love, just a bit. So I've thrown rock shade on both of those by arranging my guitar part to be more Rush (Far Cry) and U2 (Still Haven't...) especially when we reprise it for the walkdown

It's panto week for me (Oh, yes it is!), so not lighting up #teamMoth I may do a couple more sessions before Xmas if the forecast minimum temp isn't too low.

Nine of my 41 NFGs for 2025 here in Cambs #teamMoth More details and first dates in the ALT text. 2025 totals: ~250 sessions, ~9000 moths ~400 species

Went looking for Firecrests that have turned up in a neighbouring village #UKBirding Heard their calls, saw one fly across the road to hide in a fir tree #NoPhotos But, there was a nice Kestrel

Lit up for a few hours last night #teamMoth It was 13C and dry. A couple of diptera near the trap and a White-point in it!

I really don't like these "dark" nights #teamMoth Might light up this evening for a bit, predicted wet and warm here in Cambs

As promised, "Life on the Other Side of The Pond" and how a Robin over here is a tiny Old World Flycatcher, but over there it's a beast of a Red-breasted Thrush #UKBirding #USBirding #NatureMatters www.sciencebase.com/science-blog... More about this particular Robin in the ALT

I lit up for just an hour or so after dark last night. A single Silver Y graced the trap with its presence, which was nice #teamMoth

Lit up for an hour after dark last night. Just a Silver Y #teamMoth

Regulus regulus, the Goldcrest. Its scientific name a tautonym, both genus and species the same because this bird is the "type" of the genus, it's the first and defining species. US viewers will perhaps recognise it as a kinglet and it is, indeed, a kinglet type species. #UKBirding

A brave little moth kept Wogan at bay this evening #teamMoth It's got a marking like this on each forewing, it's one of the The moths, you know it...

These look wonderful, I've ordered a pack of all the moths #teamMoth

The mythical presence of the late, great Sir Michael Terence Wogan was felt in our Cambs garden last night, after many days, no weeks, nay months of awaiting his arrival #teamMoth The current Mrs Sciencebase was not in the slightest bit surprised given that it persisted down all night

To be honest, the only sites I noticed as being down were my site, Cloudflare itself, and the sites I used to try and check whether a phone number was legit

Disabled Cloudflare on my site hours ago...could be I'm the only live website right now...

More on moth names #teamMoth This post looks at the The moths www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...